Cincinnati Area Faith Communities Go Green (FCGG)

Hi, Fred!  The Episcopal footprint calculator is called "Sustaining Earth, Our Island Home."  The link is https://www.sustainislandhome.org/.  I haven't studied it yet, but on first glance, one interesting feature is that congregations are encouraged to sign up teams and it's a way to measure collective impact as a faith community.

In Greater Cincinnati, our landfill is next to Winton Terrace, which has a lot of people of color living in poverty.  They are also exposed to exhaust from traffic on I-75

Bought tickets to visit the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, AL.  Making plans to bike a portion of the Chief Ladiga Rail Trail.

Making extra effort to recycle junk mail and donate household goods and clothing that I don't need.

The season is over.  New cycle begins in the spring

Be in the garden every day.

Barriers and deterrents include having to provide voter ID, including bills that require two forms for absentee voting, and Ohio's prohibiting counties from having ballot and registration drop boxes in multiple locations. I have been advocating on this problem for years. One path is the passage of the Freedom to Vote Act at the Federal level...

World Overshoot Day is a marker of the date in which our emissions and consumption overshoot the planet's capacity. This year it happened in mid-summer.  Obviously the climate crisis is because of our imbalance: that we are using more resources and polluting so much that the planet can't absorb our impact without severe consequences. The...

Fertilizer and pesticide runoff are endangering the bodies of water on which we all depend to live.  I think the "Green Revolution" of the second half of the 20th century made farmers in Africa and Asia heavily dependent on chemical inputs that cost them a lot of money.  Traditional and new sustainable farming methods could make their...

I was shocked to learn how big my carbon footprint was before the pandemic because of air travel. This week I learned about a calculator developed by an Episcopal diocese which I will be sharing with Episcopalians I work with regionally and nationally.